The first thing you will notice is the impact the Pinterest can play when sharing online content. When an image is all you have to go on, it is truly important to select one the conveys all of the messages you want as concisely as you can. The accompanying line in the description can bring the whole thing together.

A key figure to remember is that an article with an image can bring 94% more traffic than one without. Articles that cover news, politics and sports particularly benefit from relevant images.

In the realm of press releases, the general rule is that the more multimedia content you can include, the more effective the campaign will be. Total online views are directly related to the number of multimedia elements.

Local search for local business also benefit from a good image. 60% of consumers are more likely to go with a business that has images in their local listing. Getting an inside peek at the establishment and/or the products that they feature make for a more open and friendly online business front. If you are selling items online exclusively, a detailed quality image of the product for sale is imperative. With the large amount of competitors offering this feature, you would be hard-pressed to remain viable without.

And finally, is the strong relationship between a quality image and social media campaigns. Whether this is for your personal page, or a company page, it should be given that people will be more likely to identify with people and places that they can see, and not just read about.

Considering the futuristic tech that’s on display in the game, the key is transferring that over to a real world setting, and IGN succeeded:

Now, though, just a few hours later, Absinthe has gotten an update. It seems there were some bugs in the initial release that were preventing some users from jailbreaking their devices. Absinthe 2.0.1, which is available now, should fix those bugs.

In case you missed it this morning, the new jailbreak supports all models of the iPhone from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4S, the third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch, and all models of the iPad except for the newest models of iPad 2 that have gotten an upgraded processor. Support for that iPad 2 model, the iPad 2,4, should be coming in an update sometime over the next few days.

You can download Absinthe 2.0.1 from greenpois0n, though you might have to wait awhile. The site appears to be down at the moment. Considering the high demand for the new jailbreak, that’s not at all surprising. If you’ve already jailbroken your device, you shouldn’t need Absinthe 2.0.1. If you’re still waiting to download Absinthe, then you might want to hold off until tomorrow, in order to give greenpois0n a little breathing room.

According to Reuters, the House of Representatives and the Senate both have committees that will be looking into the problems and losses attached to Facebook’s IPO. Add this to class action lawsuits and the personal lawsuits – one wonder if all of that will eventually amass into one big lawsuit-ing conglomerate – and Facebook really has covered all of the bases with this snafu.

Sean Oblack, a spokesman to the Senate Banking Committee, said the review will focus on “issues raised in the news” and that staff will be conducting briefings with “Facebook, regulators and other stakeholders.”

Marisol Garibay, a spokeswoman for the House Financial Services Committee, said staff there is also receiving briefings on the issue and “gathering information and facts.”

“While no hearings specifically focused on this IPO are planned at this time, the Committee will have hearings over the coming weeks where this topic is likely to be raised,” she said in a statement.

Some of the points of interest that Congress may be looking at are the peculiar “glitch” NASDAQ experienced the morning of Facebook’s IPO that delayed the trading of Facebook shares and what role Morgan Stanley played in deceiving investors about Facebook’s earnings.

It’s seriously been nothing but bad news for Facebook since its IPO. Honestly, it’s hard to recall when this was actually still considered a good idea.

To cover for the awkward, Samsung’s marketing department decided to construe the motion controls as sexy instead. Here is the embarrassing result:

A few questions here. First, while placing your television in front of a window is a good way to reduce glare, who doesn’t have blinds for that many windows? Also, who would ever wear shorts that short, in front of windows that large, and not expect at least a small bit of attention? Oh, and who makes those kind of faces to their TV?

The old-timey cartoon sounds are terrible and out of place. Also, why did they feel the need to put a facsimile of the Old Spice guy in there? And how does the older gentleman with the walker at the end fit into things? Is that simply a random ageist joke? This whole commercial is baffling and creepy, much the same way as Samsung’s “it knows what you’re thinking” announcement video for the Galaxy S III smartphone was.

Apparently the little girl who was abused said that Heath Howe, her father, grabbed her and tied her up with a rope in the kitchen while she was watching TV. He left her there while he played what was described by the little girl as “bad video games.”

She wasn’t discovered until her mother and her mother’s friend came home from shopping. It is apparent to the police that this wasn’t an isolated event because her mother’s friend said that the mother made no attempt to untie the girl and that she had to do it.

The rope was tied so tight it left marks on the girl’s left and right arms, deputies said. Heath Howe has been arrested and charged with child abuse.

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The new notification bar sits at the bottom of the home screen of the app, and alerts a user when a new check-in comment is made by a friend. It also notifies when a new compliment or friend request comes through. Yelp points out that the new toolbar makes it easier to manage social alerts, whether they be new friendships or quick comments.

Yelp held its IPO earlier in the month, placing shares at $22 a pop. The platform has been making improvements since, likely in part to calm nervous investors, much like Facebook, who has been trying to amp up its advertising segment since its own rocky IPO.

Instagram wasn’t enough for Facebook, however, as they have also created their own dedicated camera app for iOS. Despite being owned by Facebook, Instagram had to do something to compete. They turned to the only avenue there was – stand-alone camera hardware.

The above scenario is all true except for Instagram launching a stand-alone camera. What if we lived in a world where they did though? The super talented guys over at ElectRoulette, who brought us the genius Google Glasses parody Meme Glasses, has brought us an in depth look at the Instagram camera.

Resembling that old Kodak that’s gathering dust in the attic, the Instagram camera merges retro design with new technology like sepia filters. The camera can apply various filters and even add in new elements like mountains and flowers with the nature filter. The technology on display can also make your car appear more retro than it has any right being.

It’s pretty much accepted that the stand-alone camera market is really only for aficionados anymore. The general user now has a smartphone that can replace the camera and a wide variety of other functions. What if Instagram were to release a camera though? Would the same people who have flocked to the app buy a camera branded with their favorite camera app? The world may never know.

To illustrate why I’m terrified of skydiving, have a look at this YouTube video featuring an 80 year-old woman who is celebrating her birthday. Surrounded by friends, she prepares to embark on an adventure she won’t soon forget. You can tell she’s clearly having second thoughts about the jump moments before it’s time to sail through the air, but she takes the plunge away. What follows is nothing short of horrifying. The very thought almost makes me vomit.

According to the individual who posted this video online, this accident could have been avoided had the instructor properly adjusted the harness before exit. I’m sure he’ll do that the next time around. Assuming, of course, that his employers are willing to give him a second chance.

Icing on the cake: The video is set to the music of The Offspring. Nice.

“I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a picky eater,” writes Google software engineer Dan Zivkovic on the company’s Inside Search blog. “If I’m choosing a restaurant, I want to know that it has good reviews, that they’ll have food items I like, that it’s not too expensive, and all that. With the new changes to the local listings in search on mobile devices, now I’ll be able to see more details about places quickly and make decisions more easily — whether about restaurants or any other type of place.”

“For example, if I search for [restaurants dallas] on my mobile phone now, I’m presented with a list of local results as usual,” says Zivkovic. “Now, if I click on the name of the place, I instantly see a summary of the business, with reviews, photos, and more details, similar to the local information you see when searching on your computer. Okay, this place looks fine, but what about the other results from the list? With a simple swipe of the page left or right, I can see the local result before or after this one, to quickly compare the different options and make a decision on where to eat.”

Google has recently made some adjustments to how it handles local searches in general. Earlier this month, Google put out a list of algorithm changes it made in April. Several of them had to do with local. These included: more local sites from organizations, improvements to local navigational searches, more comprehensive predictions for local queries and improvements to the triggering of Google’s public data search.

It’s getting closer to the end of May, so before too long we should see Google’s big list of changes for this month. It will be interesting to see how many of these are related to local searches.